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Ok so I joined this website because I know nothing about programming. Came here via vallhalla's videos about making games.

I'm 16 from the uk living in Leeds. Played travian since I was like 11 and now that travians T4 has messed up so badly I've finaly decided I'm going to try and build a RTS game like travian or evony. No where near ready yet, and I'm building a bank of images (not very good ones)
And maths (Troop stats building cost etc.)

I think I can do it better than the other browser games mainly because I know whats fun about them so I'm aiming to make mine fairly simple. With plenty of war and less of the "sim city" style gaming that is found travian and I assume in other browser games too.

Done some programming before on work experience (program calculated distances and plotted points on a graph for a plane that was flying to take air sample tests etc.) Basically forgotten all of that so I need to learn it all again. I think it might have been completely irrelevant coding to what I'm trying to do now though.

Yeh I have a lot more to say but I'll save that for other threads on other days

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Welcome

Travian's T4 went down?! They are such a huge PBBG! Are they still having problems?

Welcome, glad to have you...look forward to seeing your progress!!

Cool! there's an Honduran soccer player named Ramon Nuñes playing on Leeds united, hopefuly someday that team will play in the premiere League.

Ah, it is always good to see people come in here with goals already set for themselves, welcome!

Welcome. One thing that might make your first project easier is to build it in self contained units. Like you build say a one on one dueling fight, just by itself. Then maybe a small squad fight program. Keep building in small, self contained bits, then plug them together latter. Each time you finish one, you have the satisfaction and encouragement of having finished one, while if you just try to write one huge program all at once, it can put you off from completing it.

welcome

Ok neither of the things you said "Squad fight" or "dueling" will be going into my game. But thanks for the advice.

My mission for today is to try and write the program that makes the resources go up. I have images for the resource feilds and how much they go up per hour. and how much they cost to upgrade for each level.

I'm also going to make the warehouse and granary images and stats now.

@ Jackolantern Yes, they are still having problems. The statistics aren't in order. And sometimes troops disapear.
There's a whole bunch of other bugs which I cba listing but if you check out there forums theres a lot of angry people.

So far been 2 attempted bug fixes with servers taken ofline for the changes to be implemented however none have worked.


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Ok neither of the things you said "Squad fight" or "dueling" will be going into my game. But thanks for the advice.

I don't think it really makes a difference what is actually in your game, I think he was just listing examples.. But either way, you should still follow that advice, I hate to sound like a total downer, but 99% of people that come in here with not a ton of programming knowledge planning on writing one giant program at once end up not finishing. You likely feel a certain drive to finish right now, and might even be thinking to yourself "He doesn't know what he's talking about, I know I'm gonna finish this". And if you do end up finishing it, more power to you! But I strongly recommend you taking Callan's advice

but 99% of people that come in here with not a ton of programming knowledge planning on writing one giant program at once end up not finishing.

I would not say 99%, I have seen a few people go from zero to hero here but I agree take all the advice you can get as there are many experienced devs here.